Who was the first black Seventh-day Adventist?

The Millerite movement of the 1830s to 1840s, during the Second Great Awakening, gave birth to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which was officially constituted in 1863. Hiram Edson, Ellen G. White, her husband James Springer White, Joseph Bates, and J. N. Andrews were all prominent figures in the early church. In the twentieth century, significant events such as the reviews launched by evangelicals Donald Barnhouse and Walter Martin led to its recognition as a Christian denomination.

In the early nineteenth century, the United States saw the Second Great Awakening, a revival movement. The founding of various Bible Societies, which aimed to address the problem of a lack of affordable Bibles, sparked the Second Great Awakening. Several people who had never possessed a Bible were able to buy one and study it for themselves rather than just hearing it preached, and this led to the formation of many reform movements to address society’s ills before Jesus Christ’s expected Second Coming. [1] The Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist churches spawned a slew of religious minorities. Some of these movements held doctrines that the Seventh-day Adventists would subsequently accept.

Who was the first black Seventh-day Adventist?

Eri L. Barr, the first Seventh-day Adventist minister of color, was born to free African American parents in Reading, Vermont, on May 23, 1814. He had five siblings, three of whom did not survive their teenage years.

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